The Great Morgan
The Great Morgan
Release: 1945-01-01
·Runtime: 57m
·★ 5.5
Comedy
Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely unrelated short subjects and musical numbers, interspersed with a repeated loop of a scene from some melodrama. (Contains in their entirety the shorts, "Musical Masterpieces," "Our Old Car," and "Badminton," as well as clips from other projects)
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast
Leon Ames
as K. F.
Carlos Ramírez
as Singer in 'Musical Masterpieces' (archive footage)
Lucille Norman
as Singer in 'Musical Masterpieces' (archive footage)
Eleanor Powell
as Film Character (archive footage)
Irene
as Irene (uncredited)
William Newell
as Film Character (uncredited)
William Powell
as William Powell (voice) (uncredited)
Virginia O'Brien
as Film Character (archive footage)
Ben Blue
as Bellamy B. Birdbrain in Badminton (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cedric Gibbons
as Cedric Gibbons (uncredited)
Pete Smith
as Narrator in 'Badminton' (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Arthur Space
as Father in Passing Parade (archive footage) (uncredited)
Billy Wayne
as Vince, Film Cutter (uncredited)
Tommy Dorsey
as Tommy Dorsey (archive footage) (uncredited)
Frank Morgan
as Himself
Jacqueline White
as Mother in 'Our Old Car' (archive footage)
George Chandler
as Roger the Valet (uncredited)
Inez Cooper
as Film Character (uncredited)
Douglas Shearer
as Douglas Shearer (uncredited)
Rand Brooks
as Film Character (uncredited)
Dell Henderson
as Film Character (uncredited)
John Nesbitt
as Narrator in 'Our Old Car' (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
William Tannen
as Officer Donohue (archive footage) (uncredited)
